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Book Riot - The Podcast

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News, News Commentary, Arts, Tv & Film, Books

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Kelly Jensen note the passing of two literary legends, ponder a strange pulling of a major novel, go deep on book banning legislation, and note the difficulty of paying bookstore workers a living wage, and more. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more drawn from our collective experience as power readers, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and bookish professionals? Subscribe to The Deep Dive, a biweekly newsletter featuring stories to inform and inspire readers, to get exclusive content delivered to your inbox! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: First Edition! First Edition on Twitter. First Edition on Instagram. The First Edition (free) Substack. The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Cormac McCarthy Robert Gottlieb Liz Gilbert Pulls The Snow Forest New Library Legislation in Texas and Illinois Bookstore Pay Survey Changes at The New York Times Book Review Norton Celebrates 100 Years Reuters Digital News Report Burn It Down by Maureen Ryan Conspirituality by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0	This is the Book Riot Podcast.
0:32.0	It's a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking about the books in the world of books in reading.
0:37.0	Today's Thursday, June 15, 2023. I'm joined again sooner than usual but delightfully sooner, Kelly Jensen sitting
0:47.2	in for Rebecca, who was on her way to Spain. Actually, I think she's in Portugal right now,
0:51.9	Kelly,
0:52.8	and she sent some follow-up for me
0:55.9	to pass along to the listeners, which I'll get to in a second.
0:58.1	So always working, that Rebecca Shinsky.
1:00.8	Kelly joins in what turned out
1:02.4	to be an enormous week of news and Kelly was
1:06.2	mentioning that it wasn't quite as much fun as last time you were on but such
1:10.9	as such are the vicissitudes of the world of books and reading.
1:16.6	I'm going to start at the top to note, we're not going to spend too much time
1:19.7	on the passing of Cormac McCarthy and Robert Gottlieb.
1:23.0	There's plenty of links.
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